Wolfman

25 GOOD REASONS WHY PSYCHIATRY MUST BE ABOLISHED
1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities, death - death of the body-mind-spirit.
2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians "First Do No Harm."
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their patients.
4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science.
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".
6. Because psychiatrists can not accurately and reliably predict dangerousness, violence, or any other type of human behaviour, yet make such claims as "expert witnesses", and with the media promote the "dangerous mental patient" myth/stereotype.
7. Because psychiatrists have caused a worldwide epidemic of brain damage by promoting and prescribing brain-disabling treatments such as the neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroshock), and psychosurgery (lobotomy).
8. Because psychiatrists manufacture hundreds of "mental disorders" classified in its bible called "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (a modern witch-hunting manual); such "mental disorders" and "symptoms" are in fact negative, class-and-culturally-biased moral judgments for dissident ways of coping with personal problems and alternative ways of perceiving, interpreting or being in the world.
9. Because psychiatrists, blinded by their medical model bias, fraudulently pathologize and label people's serious life or existential crises as "symptoms" of "mental illness" or "mental disorder" such as "schizophrenia","bipolar affective disorder", and "personality disorder".
10. Because psychiatrists compound this fraud by falsely claiming, without scientific proof, that these "mental disorders" are caused by a "biochemical imbalance" in the brain, genetic factors or "genetic predispositions", despite the fact that there are no genetic factors in "mental illness".
11. Because psychiatrists frequently misinform their patients, families and the public by claiming that brain-disabling procedures such as the neurotoxins (e.g.,"antipsychotic medication" and "antidepressasnts"), electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroconvulsive therapy/"ECT"), psychosurgery (lobotomy) and other behaviour modification-mind control procedures are "safe, effective and lifesaving". The exact opposite is tragically true.
12. Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie to patients, prisoners, their families, and the public.
13. Because psychiatrists routinely and willfully violate the medical-ethical principle of "informed consent" by misinforming or not informing their patients about the numerous toxic, disabling and frequently permanent effects of the neuroleptics such as memory loss, tardive dyskinesia, tardive psychosis, parkinsonism, dementia (all signs of brain damage), and death.
14. Because psychiatrists routinely threaten, intimidate or coerce many patients - particularly women, children, the elderly, and prisoners - into consenting to health-threatening/brain-damaging "treatment" such as the antidepressants, neuroleptics, electroconvulsive brainwashing, and hi-risk experiments.
15. Because psychiatrists frequently fail to fully inform psychiatric inmates and prisoners about existing safe and humane, non-medical alternatives in the community such as survivor-controlled crisis centres, drop-ins, self-help or advocacy groups, diet, massage, wholistic medicine, affordable supportive housing, and jobs.
16. Because psychiatrists are sexist in frequently stereotyping women in crisis as "hysterical" or "over-emotional", blaming women whenever they voice real complaints and assertively express their feelings and emotions, prescribing massive doses of tranquilizers and antidrepressants to disproportionately large numbers of women, and in sexually assaulting women in their offices and institutions.
17. Because psychiatrists, particularly white male psychiatrists, are homophobic - the American Psychiatric Association (APA) once labelled homosexuality as a "mental illness" or "mental disorder" - and have used forced electroshock on lesbians, trying to coerce them into adopting a heterosexual life style.
18. Because psychiatrists are ageist in prescribing tranquilizers, antidepressants ("medication") and electroconvulsive brainwashing for disproportionately large numbers of elderly people - a form of elder abuse.
19. Because psychiatrists are racist in disproportionately incarcerating and drugging ethnic minorities, aboringal people, other 'people of colour' and labelling them "psychotic" or "schizophrenic".
20. Because psychiatrists routinely violate people's civil rights, human rights and constitutional rights such as imprisoning innocent people without court trial or public hearing ("involuntary commitment"), and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishments or tortures such as forced drugging, electroconvulsive brainwashing, psychosurgery, solitary confinement, "chemical restraints", and 4-point or 5-point restraints.
21. Because psychiatrists masterminded the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people including disabled children, the elderly and psychiatric patients during The Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and "selected" hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners for death ("T-4 euthanasia" program) - historical facts still missing in psychiatric textbooks and histories.
22. Because psychiatrists have willingly participated in and administered mind-control experiments in the United States and Canada since the early 1950s - its chief targets have been poor patients, women, dissidents and prisoners.
23. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is based on the 3 Fs: Fear, Fraud,and Force.
24. Because psychiatry is a form of social control or punishment - not treatment.
25. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is fascist - a direct threat to democracy, human rights and life.

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perdidochas

Mad at your shrink?

Psychiatry is the reason that we no longer have mental institutions with thousands of patients in each state that have no chance of ever being released to society. While psychiatric drugs aren't perfect (neither are any drugs), they do give many people a chance to lead almost normal lives. Before psychiatric drugs those same people were imprisoned because they couldn't function in society.

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Wolfman

psychiatric also includes those with add these so called doctors have taken advantage and lied when many could have gotten off of it
they're people too those drugs do more harm then good

perdidochas

My father was a psychiatrist at state mental hospitals in the Southeast. He watched how psychiatric drugs transformed hospitals with literally thousands of patients that needed to be confined for their safety and ours for the rest of their natural lives, to places of short-term treatment (a year or so) with only hundreds of patients. For severely mentally ill folks, psychiatric drugs are a life saver. By severely mentally ill, I'm not talking about depressed housewives or angst-ridden teenagers. I'm talking about people who hear voices telling them to kill others, or people so depression ridden that they don't leave their houses.

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Aegis

In all seriousness, have you had an unsatisfactory experience with a psychiatrist and, if so, what were the circumstances? Thank you.

sarukun

I especially liked the part of the original post where he cited specific examples, avoided using broad generalizations, and refrained from saying the same thing over and over again.



If the best you can do is compile a top ten list to get your point across, chances are good you haven't got much worth saying in the first place.

Wolfman

this is from someone elses article I copied from a site
the replies though to his article had no common sense whatsoever

1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities, death - death of the body-mind-spirit. !
2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians "First Do No Harm." !
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their patients. !
4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science. !
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".

to me these top 5 states my point look

perdidochas

Specific evidence of this?


Evidence that psychiatrists cause harm?


For their own protection, patients are disempowered. After all, a person who is hearing voices that tell him to kill people doesn't need any power.....

There are millions of psychiatrists who disagree...

Most medicine works this way. Rarely is there a definitive test for most diseases. Doctors use the scientific method--they find out symptoms, make a hypothesis and then test the hypothesis, often by treatments. If the treatments work, the hypothesis is usually correct. If they don't they try over again.

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Wolfman

Originally Posted by Wolfman
this is from someone elses article I copied from a site
the replies though to his article had no common sense whatsoever

1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities, death - death of the body-mind-spirit. !

Specific evidence of this?

specific evidence, lol heres the evidence
millions of people with add are taken advantage
do these psychitrists know that these so called drugs
kill their brain cells and it would take a years to recover
from the damage. Have you ever heard of people suing these drugs
because of the harm they caused their children.
Ritalin is cocaine okay thats a fact
cocaine is banned and not ritalin ritalin is not a cure nor
does it help in progress nor does it make it better
people cant stay on these drugs forever their chemistry of the
neverous system changes



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2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians "First Do No Harm." !

Evidence that psychiatrists cause harm?

They lie all the time



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Originally Posted by Wolfman
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their patients. !

For their own protection, patients are disempowered. After all, a person who is hearing voices that tell him to kill people doesn't need any power...

Your only speaking for schitzo not add, or people with autism


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4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science. !

There are millions of psychiatrists who disagree...


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Originally Posted by Wolfman
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".

Most medicine works this way. Rarely is there a definitive test for most diseases. Doctors use the scientific method--they find out symptoms, make a hypothesis and then test the hypothesis, often by treatments. If the treatments work, the hypothesis is usually correct. If they don't they try over again.

http://www.cchr.org/files/18289/Psyc...g_Religion.pdf

Psychiatry is bogus: Mental illness, Chemical imbalances are mythical money makers!

25 GOOD REASONS TO ABOLISH PSYCHIATRY

HenryDavidThoreau

I do agree with the fact that ritalin is sort of a "shut up and stay still chemical parenting" drug. Regular exercise has proven to be more effective than that drug.